ConcernedApe Says the World of Haunted Chocolatier Will Be Even 'Larger' Than Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has confirmed his upcoming game, Haunted Chocolatier, is "larger" than the already sizeable Stardew Valley.

How overmuch bigger, oregon successful which way it's bigger? Sorry — Barone didn't elaborate. "The satellite of Haunted Chocolatier is larger than Stardew Valley" is the afloat grade of his message. If he's referring to the magnitude of the game, however, How Long to Beat? has the mean Stardew Valley playtime listed arsenic implicit 50 hours for conscionable the main story, and astir 168 hours for a completionist run.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, these 10 words sent a ripple of excitement done his instrumentality communities, with 1 exclaiming: "[Concerned Ape] STOP TEASING. I MEAN- DONT STOP TEASING. I MEAN- IDK IM SO EXCITED BUT I DONT WANT U TO RUSH TAKE UR SWEET ASS TIME WE LOVE U."

Last month, Barone admitted that helium "didn't privation to conscionable beryllium the Stardew Valley guy," explaining that was wherefore he's presently moving connected Haunted Chocolatier. We shouldn't expect a merchandise day anytime soon, though — there's "still a batch to beryllium done," Barone precocious admitted, peculiarly arsenic helium feels it's "got to beryllium better" than Stardew Valley.

However, helium besides suggested that helium whitethorn "eventually marque a Stardew Valley 2." Before you get excessively excited, however, the developer besides said it's "so overmuch easier to conscionable adhd much worldly to Stardew Valley than to marque a full caller crippled from scratch."

"It's each the systems — each the large systems — are already each done. That’s the worldly that’s not amusive to do. When I marque an update [for Stardew Valley now], it’s like, you know, oh, propulsion successful this, propulsion successful that. Let’s adhd greenish rainfall — like, these random, whimsical ideas."

Barone announced Haunted Chocolatier backmost successful 2021. Much similar Stardew Valley, it volition beryllium a top-down pixel-based sim, and it looks to person overmuch the aforesaid spirit arsenic ConcernedApe's erstwhile work.

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